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RE: Why do you, or anyone, want a 32 bit audio recording?

"As I said, 32 is a bigger number than 24." As I said, 32 sounds better than 24.

I use no compression or other processing - other than post-recording manual, surgical click repair. Thing is, due to the huge dynamic range of many LPs, the average level of a recording must be lower than what we usually see when using compression. The lower average recording levels are necessary to leave room for those big dynamic peaks to be recorded without clipping. The result is that all music is "moved down" closer to silence, which probably uses more of the lower level bits.

I can't tell you that this requires 32 bits, or even anything above 16 bits. But I assert that 24 bit sounds better than 16 bit - and by a lot, and 32 bit sounds better than 24 bit, although that margin is smaller.

The theory is interesting, but the audible results drive the process.

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